Shadow culture secretary Chris Bryant will deliver impassioned speech attacking Tory “war” against the Corporation which he says is a "bully crusade" destined to make the organisation a “national irrelevance” by 2027

Corporation bosses defend numbers saying content reached 97 per cent of all UK adults over the financial year and that the BBC is on track to deliver its cumulative £1.5bn of savings by 2017 under the Delivering Quality First programme